About
Mission Statement
The SMT Improvisation Interest Group seeks to establish a space within the music-theory community for the study of improvisation, in any musical style and across disciplinary boundaries. To that end:
We promote music-theoretical research on improvisation in concert music, jazz, multimedia performance, popular music, sacred music, traditional music, and music from any culture or nation.
We encourage music theorists to develop new approaches for the study of real-time music-making, and to consider what the practice of improvisation can teach us about the practice of musical analysis.
We facilitate dialogue and collaboration with improvisation researchers working in ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and allied fields such as critical improvisation studies.
Leadership
Sean Smither, Ph.D., chair
The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music
Andrew Malilay White, Ph.D., vice-chair
The University of Texas at Austin
andrew.white@austin.utexas.eduÂ
SMT Website
You can also visit our page on the SMT website:
https://societymusictheory.org/societies/interest/improvisation